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Skype is a super popular VOIP (voice over internet protocol) app that uses the internet to communicate instead of telephone lines. It’s great to be able to phone and video call, chat and send documents to contacts, all for free!

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Skype is one of the most popular instant messenger apps which includes voice and videos calls. Millions of people are using Skype to stay in contact with friends & family! Also great for business meeting calls. Features: • Find all your friends ...Read more

Description

Skype is one of the most popular instant messenger apps which includes voice and videos calls. Millions of people are using Skype to stay in contact with friends & family! Also great for business meeting calls.

Features:• Find all your friends and family in an instant - With over 250 million people using Skype, you’re bound to bump into someone you know.• Talk with your fingers - No matter where you are, your friends are always at your fingertips with free instant messaging.• Call your world from Skype - Talk to your heart’s content with free voice and video calls to all your friends and family on Skype.• Low cost calls to mobiles and landlines too - Keep in touch, even if they’re not on Skype, with low cost calls and SMS to mobiles and landlines on the other side of town or the world.• Share your favourite snaps - Got a favourite photo to share? Send it over Skype to friends and family and you won’t have to worry about email size limits or expensive MMS charges.• Chat with anyone, anywhere - Skype’s available on smartphones, tablets, PCs, Macs, and even TVs. Whatever device your friends or family use, Skype just works. Simple.• Video messaging – Record life’s everyday moments and share them with the people who matter most, with free and unlimited video messaging over Skype.

* Operator data charges may apply. We recommend using an unlimited data plan or WiFi connection.

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UPDATED ON: Feb 24, 2015

SIZE Varies with device

INSTALLATIONS: 500,000,000 - 1,000,000,000

LATEST VERSION: Varies with device

ANDROID VERSIONVaries with device

Permissions

SYSTEM TOOLS

disable keylock

Allows an application to disable the keylock and any associated password security. A legitimate example of this is the phone disabling the keylock when receiving an incoming phone call, then re-enabling the keylock when the call is finished.

change Wi-Fi state

Allows an application to connect to and disconnect from Wi-Fi access points, and to make changes to configured Wi-Fi networks.

prevent phone from sleeping

Allows an application to prevent the phone from going to sleep.

retrieve running applications

Allows application to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. May allow malicious applications to discover private information about other applications.

Allows an application to send sticky broadcasts, which remain after the broadcast ends. Malicious applications can make the phone slow or unstable by causing it to use too much memory.

read sync settings

Allows an application to read the sync settings, such as whether sync is enabled for contacts.

write sync settings

Allows an application to modify the sync settings, such as whether sync is enabled for contacts.

read sync statistics

Allows an application to read the sync stats; e.g., the history of syncs that have occurred.

automatically start at boot

Allows an application to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the application to slow down overall performance of the phone by constantly running.

display system-level alerts

Allows an application to show system alert windows. Malicious applications can take over the entire screen of the phone.

HARDWARE CONTROLS

take pictures

Allows application to take pictures with the camera. This allows the application at any time to collect images the camera is seeing.

control vibrator

Allows the application to control the vibrator.

change your audio settings

Allows application to modify global audio settings such as volume and routing.

record audio

Allows application to access the audio record path.

NETWORK COMMUNICATION

view network state

Allows an application to view the state of all networks.

view Wi-Fi state

Allows an application to view the information about the state of Wi-Fi.

full Internet access

Allows an application to create network sockets.

create Bluetooth connections

Allows an application to view configuration of the local Bluetooth phone, and to make and accept connections with paired devices.

YOUR LOCATION

coarse (network-based) location

Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate phone location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are.

PHONE CALLS

read phone state and identity

Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to, ect.

PAID SERVICES.

directly call phone numbers

Allows the application to call phone numbers without your intervention. Malicious applications may cause unexpected calls on your phone bill. Note that this does not allow the application to call emergency numbers.

STORAGE

modify/delete SD card contents

Allows an application to write to the SD card.

YOUR ACCOUNTS

act as an account authenticator

Allows an application to use the account authenticator capabilities of the AccountManager, including creating accounts and getting and setting their passwords.

discover known accounts

Allows an application to get the list of accounts known by the phone.

manage the accounts list

Allows an application to perform operations like adding, and removing accounts and deleting their password.

use the authentication credentials of an account

Allows an application to request authentication tokens.

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

read contact data

Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your phone. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.

write contact data

Allows an application to modify the contact (address) data stored on your phone. Malicious applications can use this to erase or modify your contact data.